Policy Brief Series

Policy Briefs are essays on current public policy issues in aging, health, income security, metropolitan studies, and related research done by or on behalf of the Center for Policy Research at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

• No. 45/2012. Integrating Care: Improving Overall Health by Integrating Behavioral/Mental Health Care into Primary Care. Twenty-third Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy, Macaran A. Baird (August)
• No. 44/2011. Electronic Health Records: Delivering the Right Information to the Right Health Care Providers at the Right Time. Twenty-second Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy. William M. Tierney (March).
• No. 43/2010. Palliative Care: A Novel Solution to the Healthcare Crisis. Syracuse Seminar on Aging. R. Sean Morrison (November).
• No. 42/2010. Our Grandparents, Our Parents, Our Future Selves: Optimizing Function in Old Age. Syracuse Seminar on Aging. Thomas M. Gill (January).
• No. 41/2009. Universal Health Insurance Coverage: Progress and Issues. Twenty-first Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy. Jonathan Gruber (November).
• No. 40/2009. Physician Sovereignty: The Dangerous Persistence of an Obsolete Idea. Twentieth Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy. David Lawrence (February).
• No. 39/2008. International Technology Transfer for Climate Policy. David Popp (October).
• No. 38/2008. Do We Want to Measure the Quality of Care for Vulnerable Older People? The ACOVE Approach. Syracuse Seminar on Aging. Neil S. Wenger (June).
• No. 37/2008. Our Troubled Health Care System. Why Is It So Hard to Fix? Nineteenth Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy. Judy Feder (January).
• No. 36/2007. The Truth about Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection Eighteenth Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy. Mark V. Pauly (March).
• No. 35/2007. Is It Time to Redesign Hospice? End-of-Life Care at the User Interface Syracuse Seminar on Aging. David J. Casarett (February).
• No. 34/2006. Variations Among Regions and Hospitals in Managing Chronic Illness: How Much Care Is Enough? Seventeenth Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy. John E. Wennberg (July).
• No. 33/2006. How Will Declining Rates of Marriage Reshape Eligibility for Social Security? Madonna Harrington Meyer, Douglas A. Wolf, and Christine L. Himes (July).
• No. 32/2006. Changing Economic Incentives in Long-Term Care Syracuse Seminar on Aging. R. Tamara Konetzka (April).
• No. 31/2005. Allocating Resources within a Big City School District: New York City after Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. New York Ross Rubenstein and Lawrence Miller (May).
• No. 30/2005. Spending Health Care Dollars Wisely: Can Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Help? Sixteenth Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy. Milton Weinstein (January).
• No. 29/2004. Social Integration of Older Immigrants in 21st Century America Janet M. Wilmoth (October).
• No. 28/2004. Education Finance Reform in New York: Calculating the Cost of a 'Sound Basic Education' in New York City William Duncombe, Anna Lukemeyer, and John Yinger (March).
• No. 27/2004. Are the Benefits of Medicine Worth What We Pay for It? Fifteenth Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy. David M. Cutler (April).
• No. 26/2003. The Changing American Hospital in the Twenty-first Century Fourteenth Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy. Ralph W. Muller (April).
• No. 25/2003. Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally: Public Policy Issues of the Georgia HOPE Scholarship Program and the Lottery for Education Ross Rubenstein (December).
• No. 24/2002. Looking the Other Way: A Critique of the Fair-Lending Enforcement System and a Plan to Fix It Stephen L. Ross and John Yinger (April).
• No. 23/2002.Pharmaceuticals: Access, Cost, Pricing, and Directions for the Future Thirteenth Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy. Patricia M. Danzon and Stephen B. Soumerai (May).
• No. 22/2001. How Does Dipping into Your Pension Affect Your Retirement Wealth? Gary V. Engelhardt (August).
• No. 21/2001. Fixing New York's State Education Aid Dinosaur: A Proposal John Yinger (June).
• No. 20/2000. Medicaid, Managed Care, and Kids Twelfth Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy. Deborah A. Freund (October).
• No. 19/2000. Workplace Safety Policy: Past, Present, and Future Thomas J. Kniesner and John D. Leeth (October).
• No. 18/2000. Are We Understating the Impact of Economic Conditions on Welfare Rolls? Dan A. Black, Terra G. McKinnish, and Seth G. Sanders (March).
• No. 17/2000. Health Promotion for Older Adults: What Is the Potential? Eleventh Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy. Linda P. Fried (January).
• No. 16/1999. Aging Studies Program Policy Brief. Social Security Reform: Improving Benefit Adequacy and Economic Security for Women. Timothy M. Smeeding (November).
• No. 15/1999. The Evolving Practice of Medicine: A View from the Front Line Tenth Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Symposium on Health Policy. Robert M. Corwin, Thomas H. Dennison, Patricia D. Franklin, Paul B. Ginsburg, David G. Murray (September).
• No. 14/1999. Helping the Working Poor: Employer- vs. Employee-Based Subsidies Stacy Dickert-Conlin and Douglas Holtz-Eakin (August).
• No. 13/1998. Patients as Consumers: Making the Health Care System Our Own Ninth Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy. David J. Lansky (October).
• No. 12/1998. The Hidden Age Revolution: Emergent Integration of All Ages Distinguished Lecturer in Aging Series. Matilda White Riley (May).
• No. 11/1998. New Conundrums: Public Policy and the Emerging Health Care Marketplace Eighth Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy. James R. Tallon, Jr. (March)
• No. 10/1998. Financing Higher Standards in Public Education: The Importance of Accounting for Educational Costs William Duncombe and John Yinger (February).
• No. 9/1997. Pro-Work Policy Proposals for Older Americans in the 21st Century Richard V. Burkhauser and Joseph F. Quinn (November).
• No. 8/1997. Healthier and Wealthier? The Changing Economic Circumstances of the Elderly Distinguished Lecturer in Aging Series. James P. Smith (May).
• No. 7/1996. American Longevity: Past, Present, and Future. Distinguished Lecturer in Aging Series. Samuel H. Preston (October).
• No. 6/1996. Health Care: Public Good or Private Enterprise? Seventh Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy. David M. Lawrence (July).
• No. 5/1995. Public Policy and Entrepreneurship Douglas Holtz-Eakin (November).
• No. 4/1995. The Rhetoric and the Reality of Health Care Reform Legislation Sixth Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy. Marilyn Moon (July).
• No. 3/1995. Opening Doors: How to Cut Discrimination by Supporting Neighborhood Integration John Yinger (February).
• No. 2/1994. Social Security Reform: A Budget Neutral Approach to Reducing Older Women's Disproportionate Risk of Poverty Richard V. Burkhauser and Timothy M. Smeeding (November).
• No. 1/1994. Pursuing Health-Care Reform: The Promise and the Pitfalls Fifth Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy. John K. Iglehart (September).

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